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Blyth Battery
- Overview Map Street View Blyth Battery is a Military and Local Heritage museum which is free to visit. The artillery battery was originally built in 1916 to defend the port ...
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Slate Hill Settlement Earthworks, Bolam
- Overview Map Remains of a defended Iron Age settlement around the top of Slate Hill, just north of Bolam Lake in Northumberland. The ruins are a Sheduled Monument.
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The Hurl Stone
- Overview Map Tthe Hurl Stone is a Medieval standing cross located near Newtown and Lilburn Tower in Northumberland. The stone is a Scheduled Monument.
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Wooler Tower (remains)
- Overview Map Street View There was a fortified stone tower, built in the early 16th century, on Tower Hill in Wooler. Only 3 large blocks of masonary survive, one near ...
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Kettles Hillfort, near Wooler
- The Kettles is the earwork remains of an Iron Age and Roman hill fort and settlement near Earle and Wooler in Northumberland.[1] The fort occupies a natural ridge protected on ...
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Heugh Battery
- Overview About Heugh Battery Map Street View The Heugh Gun Battery was built on the Headland in 1860 to protect the fast growing port of Hartlepool. The Battery guns were ...
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Hillfort, Yeavering Bell
- The remains of an Iron Age Hillfort are located on Yeavering Bell, a hill near Yeavering and Kirknewton in Northumberland. It was one of the largest known Iron Age hillforts in ...
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Lime Kilns
- Overview Map Street View The lime kilns at Castle Point on Lindisfarne are amongst the largest and best preserved lime kilns in Northumberland. They have a complex layout compared to ...
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Lime Kilns, Marsden
- Overview Map Street View Marsden Lime Kilns are located off the Coast Road near Marsden Quarry in South Shields. The massive battery of 15 lime kilns were built in the ...
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Engine House, Ridsdale Iron Works
- Overview Map Street View The remains of Ridsdale Iron Works are to the north of Ridsdale in Northumberland. Established in 1836, the works consisted of 3 furnaces, an engine house, coke ...
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Pillbox, near Mitford Castle
- This Second World War pillbox is located near Mitford Castle, 718m south-west of Mitford Bridge. It was built by the Northern Command as part of the River Wansbeck Stop Line ...
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Pillbox, Adders Haugh
- This Second World War pillbox is located on Adders Haugh, 301m south of Mitford Bridge. It was built by the Northern Command as part of the River Wansbeck Stop Line ...
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Pillbox near Spittal Hill Farm
- This Second World War pillbox is located near Spittal Hill Farm, 320m north-west of Mitford Bridge. It was built by the Northern Command as part of the River Wansbeck Stop ...
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Huntcliff Ironstone Mine
- Overview Map Street View Inside Huntcliffe Mine, near the cliffs about 1 mile north-east of Brotton, was opened by Bell Bros., Ltd.in 1871 (nearby Cliff Mines had been opened by ...
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Castlerigg Stone Circle
- Overview About Castlerigg Stone Circle Map Street View Castlerigg Stone Circle, located just over a mile east of Keswick, is one of the earliest stone circles in the UK, thought ...
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Swinside Stone Circle
- Overview About Swinside Stone Circle Map Street View Swinside Stone Circle (also known as Sunkenkirk Stone Circle) is a stone circle from either the Neolithic or Bronze Age date, located ...
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Long Meg and Her Daughters (stone circle)
- Overview About Long Meg and Her Daughters Map Street View Long Meg and Her Daughters is a stone circle in Cumbria, located about half a mile north-east of the village ...
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Prebends Bridge
- Overview About Prebends Bridge Map Street View Prebends Bridge over the River Wear at Durham was built for the Dean and Chapter of Durham to provide access to Durham Cathedral ...
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Kirkoswald Castle
- Overview About Kirkoswald Castle Map Street View The ruins of Kirkoswald Castle are located to the south-east of Kirkoswald in Cumbria. A licence to crenellate (fortify) an existing building was granted ...
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Arbeia - Roman Fort
- Overview About Arbeia Map Street View The fort stood on the Lawe Top in South Shields, overlooking the River Tyne. It was built around 120 AD, guarded the main sea ...
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Sherburnhouse Bridge
- Overview Map Street View The old Sherburnhouse Bridge, located to the north-west of the hamlet of Sherburn House in County Durham, dates from 1335, with the upper part of the ...
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Myers Head Lead Mine
- The remains of Myers Head Lead Mine are located by the confluence of Pasture Beck and Hayeswater Gill, south-east of Hartsop in the Eden district of Cumbria.
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Coke Ovens at Inkerman Farm
- "The beehive coke ovens are some of the last remaining examples of this type of oven left in County Durham. At one time there were over 100,000 in the County. ...
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Arnside Tower
- Overview About Arnside Tower Map Street View Arnside Tower is a late-medieval tower house located about half a mile south of the village of Arnside and a similar distance north-east ...
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Learchild Roman fort (Alavna)
- The shallow earthwork remains of a large Roman fort (thought to be 'Alavna') near High Learchild were discovered by arial photography in 1945, and confirmed by subsequent archaeological digs. The fort ...
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Prehistoric Rock Art in Lemmington Wood
- Deep in Lemmington Woods is a rock with 'cup and rings' carvings, thought to date from the early Bronze Age. The rock is very unusual as it also has later Anglo-Saxon ...
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Gardner's Houses Prehistoric Settlement
- There is evidence of a prehistoric settlement near Gardener's House Farm, which is located to the north of Dinnington village.
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Medieval Bewcastle Cross
- The high cross shaft in the churchyard of St Cuthbert's Church in Bewcastle dates from the 7th century. The Bewcastle Cross is a scheduled monument. The Stone Cross at St ...
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Brougham Castle
- Overview About Brougham Castle Map Street View Located about a mile south-east of Penrith in Cumbria. Brougham Castle (pronounced /ˈbruːm/) is a medieval building about 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east ...
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Gloucester Lodge Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
- Gloucester Lodge Battery, just south of Blyth, was a Second World War heavy anti-aircraft gun battery and radar site. It is one of only a handful of complete or near ...
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Stob Stone
- Overview Map Street View Stob Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone, located by the roadside at Standing Stone Farm, about half a mile south of Matfen in Northumberland. The ...
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Birkrigg Stone Circle
- Overview About Birkrigg Stone Circle Map Street View Birkrigg Stone Circle (also known as the Druid's Circle) is located on Birkrigg Common in Cumbria, located about 2 miles south of ...
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Low Wood Gunpowder Works
- Overview About Low Wood Gunpowder Works Map Street View The Low Wood Gunpowder Works, located on the east banks of the River Leven at Low Wood, were in operation from ...
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Backbarrow Ironworks
- Established in 1711. Isaac Wilkinson worked here, he developed a furnace fuelled by charcoal and was one of the first of its kind in the UK.The main products of the ...
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Hodbarrow Old Lighthouse
- The old lighthouse (aka Hodbarrow Beacon) is located 380m north-west of Hodbarrow Point, to the south of Millom. Built in the 19th Century, it is one of the last surviving ...
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Percy's Cross (between Powburn & Wooperton)
- This is a 15th century wayside cross, located close to the A697 road between Powburn and Wooperton in Northumberland. The cross commemorates Sir Ralph Percy who was killed near here in ...
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Site of Iron Age Settlement, Houghton
- Overview Aerial View To the south-west of Houghton in Northumberland, by Broomy Hill, are the remains of an Iron Age defended settlement. The remains are not easily visible as most of the defensive ...
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Village Cross, Esh
- Overview Map Street View Esh Cross is located in its original position on a raised area at the southern end of the village green in Esh. It is an important ...
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Neville's Cross (monument)
- Overview Map Street View The remains of the medieval Neville's Cross are located on the north side of Crossgate Peth, opposite St John's Church in the Nevil's Cross area of ...
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Tynemouth Priory and Castle
- Overview History Aerial View Street View Tynemouth Castle is located on a rocky headland (known as Pen Bal Crag) at Tynemouth, overlooking Tynemouth Pier and the mouth of the River ...
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Shap Abbey (ruins)
- Overview About Shap Abbey Map Street View Shap Abbey is located about 1½ miles west of the village of Shap in Cumbria. The Abbey was founded in c.1200 by local ...
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Casterton Stone Circle
- Overview Map An embanked circle of 17 relatively small stones, probably dating from the Bronze Age. The stone circle is located near Langthwaite Gill Plantation and about 1 mile east ...
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The Gosforth Cross
- Overview About the Gosforth Cross Map Street View The Gosforth Cross is a 10th century high cross standing in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Gosforth, Cumbria. The carvings ...
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Addingham Cross
- The 'Addingham Cross' is a late 10th or early 11th century Saxon stone cross in the churchyard of St Michael's Church, Glassonby. The cross was originally located in the churchyard ...
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Mayburgh Henge
- Overview About Mayburgh Henge Map Street View Henges are ritual or ceremonial sites which date to the Late Neolithic period (2800-2000 BC). Mayburgh Henge is located close to the confluence ...
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King Arthur's Round Table Henge
- Overview About King Arthur's Round Table Map Street View King Arthur's Round Table Henge is located at the south of the village of Eamont Bridge in Cumbria. It is thought ...
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Roman milestone near Spitals Farm
- There is Roman milestone near Spitals Farm, on the side of the old A66 road between the villages of Kirkby Thore and Temple Sowerby in Cumbria. The milestone, carved from red ...
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Coxhoe Medieval Settlement
- Overview Map The buried remains of the Medieval village of Coxhoe are located to the south-west of East House Farm, roughly half way between the modern villages of Coxhoe and ...
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Castle Howe motte and bailey castle
- Overview Map Street View The remains of Castle Howe, a motte and bailey castle, is located by the confluence of Birk Beck with the River Lune, to the west of ...
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Burrow Walls Roman Fort
- Overview Map Burrow Walls is located between Workington and Seaton in Cumbria. This Scheduled Monument includes the buried remains of a Roman fort and also visible sections of a wall made ...
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Grey Croft Stone Circle, near Seascale
- Overview About Grey Croft Stone Circle Map Aerial View Grey Croft Stone Circle (aka Greycroft) is located about half a mile north of the village of Seascale. It was originally ...
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Bolton Leper Hospital
- Overview Map A leper hopital was established in Bolton, Northumberland, in the 13th century. The site covers a large area to the north of the modern village. There are few ...
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Humbleton Chapel (ruins)
- Overview Map Street View A knoll, known as 'Chapel Hill', is located to the south of Humbleton. This is the reamins of Humbleton Chapel and it's associated burial ground. The earliest ...
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Rotherhope Fell Mine
- Overview Map (area 1) Map (area 2) "...The monument, which is divided into two areas, is situated on the north east side of Rotherhope Fell above Black Burn. It includes ...
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Croglam Castle (Iron Age site)
- Overview Map This is a Scheduled Monument at the south-west of Kirkby Stephen. It includes the earthwork and buried remains of a defended settlement of Iron Age date, situated on ...
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Waitby Castle (Romano-British settlement)
- Overview Map Castle Hill is located about ¼ mile east of the village of Waitby and 1 mile west of Kirkby Stephen. Waitby Castle is an oval-shaped Romano-British hilltop enclosure situated ...
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Blyth Battery
- Overview Map Street View Blyth Battery is a Military and Local Heritage museum which is free to visit. The artillery battery was originally built in 1916 to defend the port ...
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Slate Hill Settlement Earthworks, Bolam
- Overview Map Remains of a defended Iron Age settlement around the top of Slate Hill, just north of Bolam Lake in Northumberland. The ruins are a Sheduled Monument.
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The Hurl Stone
- Overview Map Tthe Hurl Stone is a Medieval standing cross located near Newtown and Lilburn Tower in Northumberland. The stone is a Scheduled Monument.
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Wooler Tower (remains)
- Overview Map Street View There was a fortified stone tower, built in the early 16th century, on Tower Hill in Wooler. Only 3 large blocks of masonary survive, one near ...
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Kettles Hillfort, near Wooler
- The Kettles is the earwork remains of an Iron Age and Roman hill fort and settlement near Earle and Wooler in Northumberland.[1] The fort occupies a natural ridge protected on ...
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Heugh Battery
- Overview About Heugh Battery Map Street View The Heugh Gun Battery was built on the Headland in 1860 to protect the fast growing port of Hartlepool. The Battery guns were ...
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Hillfort, Yeavering Bell
- The remains of an Iron Age Hillfort are located on Yeavering Bell, a hill near Yeavering and Kirknewton in Northumberland. It was one of the largest known Iron Age hillforts in ...
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Lime Kilns
- Overview Map Street View The lime kilns at Castle Point on Lindisfarne are amongst the largest and best preserved lime kilns in Northumberland. They have a complex layout compared to ...
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Lime Kilns, Marsden
- Overview Map Street View Marsden Lime Kilns are located off the Coast Road near Marsden Quarry in South Shields. The massive battery of 15 lime kilns were built in the ...
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Engine House, Ridsdale Iron Works
- Overview Map Street View The remains of Ridsdale Iron Works are to the north of Ridsdale in Northumberland. Established in 1836, the works consisted of 3 furnaces, an engine house, coke ...
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Pillbox, near Mitford Castle
- This Second World War pillbox is located near Mitford Castle, 718m south-west of Mitford Bridge. It was built by the Northern Command as part of the River Wansbeck Stop Line ...
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Pillbox, Adders Haugh
- This Second World War pillbox is located on Adders Haugh, 301m south of Mitford Bridge. It was built by the Northern Command as part of the River Wansbeck Stop Line ...
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Pillbox near Spittal Hill Farm
- This Second World War pillbox is located near Spittal Hill Farm, 320m north-west of Mitford Bridge. It was built by the Northern Command as part of the River Wansbeck Stop ...
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Huntcliff Ironstone Mine
- Overview Map Street View Inside Huntcliffe Mine, near the cliffs about 1 mile north-east of Brotton, was opened by Bell Bros., Ltd.in 1871 (nearby Cliff Mines had been opened by ...
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Castlerigg Stone Circle
- Overview About Castlerigg Stone Circle Map Street View Castlerigg Stone Circle, located just over a mile east of Keswick, is one of the earliest stone circles in the UK, thought ...
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Swinside Stone Circle
- Overview About Swinside Stone Circle Map Street View Swinside Stone Circle (also known as Sunkenkirk Stone Circle) is a stone circle from either the Neolithic or Bronze Age date, located ...
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Long Meg and Her Daughters (stone circle)
- Overview About Long Meg and Her Daughters Map Street View Long Meg and Her Daughters is a stone circle in Cumbria, located about half a mile north-east of the village ...
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Prebends Bridge
- Overview About Prebends Bridge Map Street View Prebends Bridge over the River Wear at Durham was built for the Dean and Chapter of Durham to provide access to Durham Cathedral ...
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Kirkoswald Castle
- Overview About Kirkoswald Castle Map Street View The ruins of Kirkoswald Castle are located to the south-east of Kirkoswald in Cumbria. A licence to crenellate (fortify) an existing building was granted ...
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Arbeia - Roman Fort
- Overview About Arbeia Map Street View The fort stood on the Lawe Top in South Shields, overlooking the River Tyne. It was built around 120 AD, guarded the main sea ...
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Sherburnhouse Bridge
- Overview Map Street View The old Sherburnhouse Bridge, located to the north-west of the hamlet of Sherburn House in County Durham, dates from 1335, with the upper part of the ...
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Myers Head Lead Mine
- The remains of Myers Head Lead Mine are located by the confluence of Pasture Beck and Hayeswater Gill, south-east of Hartsop in the Eden district of Cumbria.
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Coke Ovens at Inkerman Farm
- "The beehive coke ovens are some of the last remaining examples of this type of oven left in County Durham. At one time there were over 100,000 in the County. ...
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Arnside Tower
- Overview About Arnside Tower Map Street View Arnside Tower is a late-medieval tower house located about half a mile south of the village of Arnside and a similar distance north-east ...
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Learchild Roman fort (Alavna)
- The shallow earthwork remains of a large Roman fort (thought to be 'Alavna') near High Learchild were discovered by arial photography in 1945, and confirmed by subsequent archaeological digs. The fort ...
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Prehistoric Rock Art in Lemmington Wood
- Deep in Lemmington Woods is a rock with 'cup and rings' carvings, thought to date from the early Bronze Age. The rock is very unusual as it also has later Anglo-Saxon ...
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Gardner's Houses Prehistoric Settlement
- There is evidence of a prehistoric settlement near Gardener's House Farm, which is located to the north of Dinnington village.
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Medieval Bewcastle Cross
- The high cross shaft in the churchyard of St Cuthbert's Church in Bewcastle dates from the 7th century. The Bewcastle Cross is a scheduled monument. The Stone Cross at St ...
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Brougham Castle
- Overview About Brougham Castle Map Street View Located about a mile south-east of Penrith in Cumbria. Brougham Castle (pronounced /ˈbruːm/) is a medieval building about 2 miles (3.2 km) south-east ...
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Gloucester Lodge Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
- Gloucester Lodge Battery, just south of Blyth, was a Second World War heavy anti-aircraft gun battery and radar site. It is one of only a handful of complete or near ...
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Stob Stone
- Overview Map Street View Stob Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone, located by the roadside at Standing Stone Farm, about half a mile south of Matfen in Northumberland. The ...
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Birkrigg Stone Circle
- Overview About Birkrigg Stone Circle Map Street View Birkrigg Stone Circle (also known as the Druid's Circle) is located on Birkrigg Common in Cumbria, located about 2 miles south of ...
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Low Wood Gunpowder Works
- Overview About Low Wood Gunpowder Works Map Street View The Low Wood Gunpowder Works, located on the east banks of the River Leven at Low Wood, were in operation from ...
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Backbarrow Ironworks
- Established in 1711. Isaac Wilkinson worked here, he developed a furnace fuelled by charcoal and was one of the first of its kind in the UK.The main products of the ...
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Hodbarrow Old Lighthouse
- The old lighthouse (aka Hodbarrow Beacon) is located 380m north-west of Hodbarrow Point, to the south of Millom. Built in the 19th Century, it is one of the last surviving ...
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Percy's Cross (between Powburn & Wooperton)
- This is a 15th century wayside cross, located close to the A697 road between Powburn and Wooperton in Northumberland. The cross commemorates Sir Ralph Percy who was killed near here in ...
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Site of Iron Age Settlement, Houghton
- Overview Aerial View To the south-west of Houghton in Northumberland, by Broomy Hill, are the remains of an Iron Age defended settlement. The remains are not easily visible as most of the defensive ...
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Village Cross, Esh
- Overview Map Street View Esh Cross is located in its original position on a raised area at the southern end of the village green in Esh. It is an important ...
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Neville's Cross (monument)
- Overview Map Street View The remains of the medieval Neville's Cross are located on the north side of Crossgate Peth, opposite St John's Church in the Nevil's Cross area of ...
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Tynemouth Priory and Castle
- Overview History Aerial View Street View Tynemouth Castle is located on a rocky headland (known as Pen Bal Crag) at Tynemouth, overlooking Tynemouth Pier and the mouth of the River ...
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Shap Abbey (ruins)
- Overview About Shap Abbey Map Street View Shap Abbey is located about 1½ miles west of the village of Shap in Cumbria. The Abbey was founded in c.1200 by local ...
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Casterton Stone Circle
- Overview Map An embanked circle of 17 relatively small stones, probably dating from the Bronze Age. The stone circle is located near Langthwaite Gill Plantation and about 1 mile east ...
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The Gosforth Cross
- Overview About the Gosforth Cross Map Street View The Gosforth Cross is a 10th century high cross standing in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Gosforth, Cumbria. The carvings ...
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Addingham Cross
- The 'Addingham Cross' is a late 10th or early 11th century Saxon stone cross in the churchyard of St Michael's Church, Glassonby. The cross was originally located in the churchyard ...
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Mayburgh Henge
- Overview About Mayburgh Henge Map Street View Henges are ritual or ceremonial sites which date to the Late Neolithic period (2800-2000 BC). Mayburgh Henge is located close to the confluence ...
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King Arthur's Round Table Henge
- Overview About King Arthur's Round Table Map Street View King Arthur's Round Table Henge is located at the south of the village of Eamont Bridge in Cumbria. It is thought ...
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Roman milestone near Spitals Farm
- There is Roman milestone near Spitals Farm, on the side of the old A66 road between the villages of Kirkby Thore and Temple Sowerby in Cumbria. The milestone, carved from red ...
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Coxhoe Medieval Settlement
- Overview Map The buried remains of the Medieval village of Coxhoe are located to the south-west of East House Farm, roughly half way between the modern villages of Coxhoe and ...
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Castle Howe motte and bailey castle
- Overview Map Street View The remains of Castle Howe, a motte and bailey castle, is located by the confluence of Birk Beck with the River Lune, to the west of ...
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Burrow Walls Roman Fort
- Overview Map Burrow Walls is located between Workington and Seaton in Cumbria. This Scheduled Monument includes the buried remains of a Roman fort and also visible sections of a wall made ...
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Grey Croft Stone Circle, near Seascale
- Overview About Grey Croft Stone Circle Map Aerial View Grey Croft Stone Circle (aka Greycroft) is located about half a mile north of the village of Seascale. It was originally ...
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Bolton Leper Hospital
- Overview Map A leper hopital was established in Bolton, Northumberland, in the 13th century. The site covers a large area to the north of the modern village. There are few ...
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Humbleton Chapel (ruins)
- Overview Map Street View A knoll, known as 'Chapel Hill', is located to the south of Humbleton. This is the reamins of Humbleton Chapel and it's associated burial ground. The earliest ...
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Rotherhope Fell Mine
- Overview Map (area 1) Map (area 2) "...The monument, which is divided into two areas, is situated on the north east side of Rotherhope Fell above Black Burn. It includes ...
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Croglam Castle (Iron Age site)
- Overview Map This is a Scheduled Monument at the south-west of Kirkby Stephen. It includes the earthwork and buried remains of a defended settlement of Iron Age date, situated on ...
